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When SAP HANA met R – Bring home your graphics

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A couple of days ago, I started to think about SAP HANA and R on Amazon Web Services…as far as I know, graphics can’t get generated using this kind of integration because the graphic will get generated on the server and could not make the trip back into HANA Studio…so I kept thinking as said to myself…”Wouldn’t it be a good idea to use a Linux command to send my email the graphics generated in the R server?”…I had a deal for sure…

I spend a couple of days trying to install X11 on my SUSE box…until I discovered…that it’s a headless server and doesn’t provide any support for X11…that really bring me down as I tried to hard…anyway…as nothing can stop my ideas from becoming some real…I thought of using PDF generation as it doesn’t need X11 at all…but…today…after doing some more research…I discovered that the Cairo library supports image creation without the need of X11…